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equipment problem publishers won't necessarily receive notice of the logger failure, and error messages will not be displayed or recorded by any equipment on the pub/sub system. In a client/server system, when an error logger fails, the system will receive an indication of the error logger (server) failure. However, the client/server system will have to deal with that failure by having redundant logging servers online, or by dynamically spawning fallback logging servers. This adds complexity to the client and server designs, as well as to the client/server architecture as a whole. In a pub/sub system, redundant logging subscribers that are exact duplicates of the existing logger can be added to the system to increase logging reliability without any impact to any other equipment on the system. The feature of assured error message logging can also be added incrementally, subsequent to implementing the basic functionality of equipment problem message logging.
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The broker in a pub/sub system may be designed to deliver messages for a specified time, but then stop attempting delivery, whether or not it has received confirmation of successful receipt of the message by all subscribers. A pub/sub system designed in this way cannot guarantee delivery of messages
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The pub/sub pattern scales well for small networks with a small number of publisher and subscriber nodes and low message volume. However, as the number of nodes and messages grows, the likelihood of instabilities increases, limiting the maximum scalability of a pub/sub network. Example throughput
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Redundant subscribers in a pub/sub system can help assure message delivery with minimal additional complexity. For example, a factory may utilize a pub/sub system where equipment can publish problems or failures to a subscriber that displays and logs those problems. If the logger fails (crashes),
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than traditional client-server, through parallel operation, message caching, tree-based or network-based routing, etc. However, in certain types of tightly coupled, high-volume enterprise environments, as systems scale up to become data centers with thousands of servers sharing the pub/sub
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to any applications that might require such assured delivery. Tighter coupling of the designs of such a publisher and subscriber pair must be enforced outside of the pub/sub architecture to accomplish such assured delivery (e.g. by requiring the subscriber to publish receipt messages).
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Even with systems that do not rely on brokers, a subscriber might be able to receive data that it is not authorized to receive. An unauthorized publisher may be able to introduce incorrect or damaging messages into the pub/sub system. This is especially true with systems that
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to subscribers, and need not even know of their existence. With the topic being the focus, publishers and subscribers are allowed to remain ignorant of system topology. Each can continue to operate as per normal independently of the other. In the traditional tightly coupled
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Subscribers may register for specific messages at build time, initialization time or runtime. In GUI systems, subscribers can be coded to handle user commands (e.g., click of a button), which corresponds to build time registration. Some frameworks and software products use
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system, messages are published to "topics" or named logical channels. Subscribers in a topic-based system will receive all messages published to the topics to which they subscribe. The publisher is responsible for defining the topics to which subscribers can subscribe.
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Outside of the enterprise environment, on the other hand, the pub/sub paradigm has proven its scalability to volumes far beyond those of a single data center, providing Internet-wide distributed messaging through web syndication protocols such as
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configuration files to register subscribers. These configuration files are read at initialization time. The most sophisticated alternative is when subscribers can be added or removed at runtime. This latter approach is used, for example, in
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system, messages are only delivered to a subscriber if the attributes or content of those messages matches constraints defined by the subscriber. The subscriber is responsible for classifying the messages.
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Rahimian, Fatemeh; Le Nguyen Huu, Thinh; Girdzijauskas, Sarunas (2012), Göschka, Karl Michael; Haridi, Seif (eds.), "Locality-Awareness in a Peer-to-Peer Publish/Subscribe Network",
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In the publish–subscribe model, subscribers typically receive only a subset of the total messages published. The process of selecting messages for reception and processing is called
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Slowdowns—as more and more applications use the system (even if they are communicating on separate pub/sub channels) the message volume flow to an individual subscriber will slow
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Similarly, subscribers express interest in one or more classes and only receive messages that are of interest, without knowledge of which publishers, if any, there are.
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A pub/sub system must be designed carefully to be able to provide stronger system properties that a particular application might require, such as assured delivery.
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into classes that are received by subscribers. This is contrasted to the typical messaging pattern model where publishers send messages directly to subscribers.
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infrastructure, current vendor systems often lose this benefit; scalability for pub/sub products under high load in these contexts is a research challenge.
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Load surges—periods when subscriber requests saturate network throughput followed by periods of low message volume (underutilized network bandwidth)
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The most serious problems with pub/sub systems are a side-effect of their main advantage: the decoupling of publisher from subscriber.
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of the two; publishers post messages to a topic while subscribers register content-based subscriptions to one or more topics.
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One of the earliest publicly described pub/sub systems was the "news" subsystem of the Isis Toolkit, described at the 1987
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with such pub/sub systems is to take down a publisher to allow the subscriber to work through the backlog (a form of
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function to route messages from publishers to subscribers. In addition, the broker may prioritize messages in a
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For pub/sub systems that use brokers (servers), the argument for a broker to send messages to a subscriber is
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A publisher in a pub/sub system may assume that a subscriber is listening, when in fact it is not.
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them in some other ways (such as format and semantic coupling) so they become messy over time.
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system. Most messaging systems support both the pub/sub and message queue models in their
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In many publish–subscribe systems, publishers post messages to an intermediary
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Messaging pattern in which senders and receivers do not directly communicate
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patterns, publish–subscribe provides the highest level of
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among architectural components, however it can also
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